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Bob Sheppard (musician)
Bob Sheppard is an American jazz musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He has been a touring and studio musician for albums, film, and television and has released solo albums. He has worked with Billy Childs, Chick Corea, Leonard Cohen, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Steely Dan, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Scott Henderson, Lyle Mays, Peter Erskine, John Beasley, Bob Mintzer, and Joni Mitchell. He has taught at the Thorton School Of Music at the University of Southern California. He plays the saxophone solo on Al Jarreau's rendition of "Blue Skies" which accompanies the end credits of the film '' Glengarry Glen Ross''. Discography As leader * ''Tell-Tale Signs'' ( Windham Hill, 1991) * ''Lava Jazz'', The Lounge Art Ensemble (Fuzzy Music, 1997) * ''In the Now'' (Sirocco Jazz, 2002) * ''Music for Moderns'', The Lounge Art Ensemble (Fuzzy Music, 2005) * ''From the Hip'' with David Kikoski, Dave Carpenter, Gary Novak (BFM Jazz, 2013) As sideman Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County. It was the federal capital, capital of the United States from November 1 until December 24, 1784.New Jersey County Map , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton are the two principal cities of the Trenton–Princeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Mercer County for statistical purposes and constitutes part of the New York metropolitan area#Combined statistical area, New York combined statistical area by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop music, pop, jazz, rock music, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. ''Rolling Stone'', in 2002, named her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic, in a 2011 biography, stated "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century." Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When I Fall In Love (Chris Botti Album)
''When I Fall in Love'' is the seventh studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. It was released by Columbia Records on September 28, 2004 and peaked at number 1 on Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. The album has sold more than 500,000 copies and has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Track listing Personnel * Chris Botti – trumpet, vocals (2) * Federico Gonzalez Peña – acoustic piano (1) * Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano (2, 10) * Billy Childs – acoustic piano (3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), Fender Rhodes (5), arrangements (5, 9, 12) * Jeff Lorber – keyboards (3), arrangements (3) * Shane Fontayne – guitars (1, 2) * Dean Parks – guitars (3, 6, 8, 9, 11) * Mitch Dalton – semi-acoustic jazz guitar (7) * Dominic Miller – guitars (8) * Jon Ossman – bass (1) * Brian Bromberg – bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 8-11), arrangements (3) * Alec Dankworth – double bass (7) * Billy Kilson – drums (1, 6, 11) * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (2, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Thousand Kisses Deep (album)
''A Thousand Kisses Deep'' is the sixth studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. It was released by Columbia Records on September 13, 2003. Guest vocalists include Chantal Kreviazuk on "The Look of Love" and Bridget Benenate on "Ever Since We Met". The album title comes from the name of the fourth track, "A Thousand Kisses Deep", a cover of the 2001 Leonard Cohen track.Leonard Cohen, in turn, may have drawn inspiration from lyrics used by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Act I, Scene 2 of his opera ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' ("The Abduction from the Seraglio", K.384), sung by Pasha Selim's overseer, Osmin, to the lovesick Spanish nobleman, Belmonte: OSMIN: ''Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden,'' ''Die es treu und redlich meint,'' ''Lohn' es ihr durch tausend Küsse;'' ''Mach' ihr all das Leben süße,'' ''Sei ihr Tröster, sei ihr Freund.'' ''Trallalera, trallalera.'' If you should ever find a sweetheart Who will live for you and you alone, Give her at least a thousand kisses, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December (Chris Botti Album)
''December'' is the fifth studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. It was released by Columbia Records on October 22, 2002. Botti himself provided vocal on "Perfect Day". In 2006, the album was reissued omitting “Perfect Day” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”, re-recording “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Silent Night” as well as adding in "Ave Maria," featuring the Orchestra of St. John's Choir, and "I Don't Really Want Much For Christmas" (featuring Eric Benet). Track listing Personnel * Chris Botti – trumpet, arrangements (1, 3-5, 9, 11-13), string arrangements (1) * Billy Childs – Fender Rhodes (1, 11, 13), acoustic piano (3, 4, 5, 9, 12), arrangements (4, 5, 12) * C. J. Vanston – acoustic piano (3, 13), synthesizers (4, 5, 11, 12), organ (3), string arrangements (4), Hammond organ (9) * Randy Waldman – acoustic piano (7, 8) * Anthony Wilson – guitar (1, 3, 7, 9) * Shane Fontayne – guitar (6, 11, 13), arrangements (6) * James Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Botti
Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions (music album), ''Impressions''. He was also nominated in 2008 for his album ''Italia (album), Italia'' and received three nominations in 2010 for the live album ''Chris Botti in Boston''. Four of his albums have reached the No. 1 position on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' jazz albums chart. Coming to prominence with the 2001 recording of his ''Night Sessions'' album, Botti established a reputation as a versatile musician in both jazz and pop music for his ability to fuse both styles together. Early life Botti was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Corvallis, although he also spent two years of his childhood in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Memoirs
''European Memoirs'' (a.k.a. ''Memoir'' in Japan) is the tenth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Akiyoshi was nominated for a 1983 Grammy award in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category for the arrangement of "Remembering Bud" on this album. This would be the final recording of the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band before the principals moved to New York City in 1982 and formed a new big band, the " Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin" that released nine more albums and two live performance videos before disbanding in 2003. Track listing :All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi: LP side A # "Remembering Bud" – 8:55 # "Feast in Milano" – 4:50 # "Relaxing at Zell am See" – 8:14 LP side B # "Two Faces of a Nation" ## Part 1 – 9:22 ## Part 2 – 10:02 Personnel *Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo *John Gross – tenor saxophone, flute, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Toshiko With Love
''From Toshiko With Love'' is the twelfth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band (ninth studio recording). It was released in Japan by Victor Records and in the U.S. (under the title ''Tanuki's Night Out'') by Jazz America Marketing – not to be confused with the 2002 Lew Tabackin Trio recording of the same name ''(Tanuki's Night Out)''. The album received two Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious ... nominations in 1981 for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band" and "Best Arrangement of an Instrumental Recording" (for the song "A Bit Byas'd"). Track listing :All songs composed by Lew Tabackin and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi: LP record, LP side A #"A Bit Byas'd" – 7:29 #"Lament for Sonny" – 5:11 #"Let the Tape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Tabackin
Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s. Biography Tabackin started learning flute at age 12, followed by tenor saxophone at age 15. He has cited Al Cohn and Coleman Hawkins as influences on saxophone, while his flute role models include classical players such as William Kincaid, Julius Baker, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Tabackin studied flute at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and also studied music with composer Vincent Persichetti. In 1962 he graduated from the Conservatory and after serving with the United States Army, U.S. Army worked with Tal Farlow. He also worked with Chuck Israels in New York City and a band that included Elvin Jones, Donald Byrd, and Roland Hanna. Later he was a member of ''The Dick Cavett Show'' band and The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen. He moved from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiko Akiyoshi
is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary ''Jazz Is My Native Language''. In 1996, she published her autobiography, ''Life with Jazz'', and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Biography Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, to a Japanese family, the youngest of four sisters. In 1945, after World War II, Akiyoshi's family lost their home and returned to Japan, settling in Beppu. A local record collector introduced her to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing "Sweet Lorraine." She immediately loved the sound and began to study jazz. In 1953, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinced record produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (née McGilvray) in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The label was purchased by BMG through a series of buyouts from 1992 through 1996. It is now a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, following Sony's acquisition of BMG Music in 2007. Private Music, also a subsidiary of BMG, has issued some back-catalog releases under the Windham Hill Records imprint. Since the Sony merger in 2007, Windham Hill has released no new material but reissues albums and compilations as part of Sony's Legacy Recordings brand. Origin In 1975, William Ackerman was a college dropout who played acoustic guitar on the Stanford University campus. Friends asked him to record his instrumental music for them on cassette. They chipped in so that he could make an album titled ''The Search for the Turtle's Navel'' (later renamed ''In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glengarry Glen Ross (film)
''Glengarry Glen Ross'' is a 1992 American dark comedy-drama film directed by James Foley and written by David Mamet, based on his 1984 Pulitzer Prize–winning play of the same name. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real-estate salesmen and their increasing desperation when the corporate office sends a motivational trainer with the threat that all but the top two salesmen will be fired within one week. Like the play, the film is notorious for its use of profanity, leading the cast to refer to the film jokingly as " Death of a Fuckin' Salesman". The title of the film is derived from the names of two of the real-estate developments being peddled by the salesmen: Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms. The film was critically acclaimed. The world premiere was held at the 49th Venice Film Festival, where Jack Lemmon was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. Al Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
